Category Archives: Medical Education

Pharma Gets the ProPublica Treatment

By Walter Armstrong | Published: October 27, 2010
Alternative news organization and media allies investigate the industry’s payments to doctors—launching a fresh assault on the ethical status quo. By Walter Armstrong Last week, Big Pharma’s practice of paying doctors to do medical education, promote its products, or both was the focus of a multimedia blitz launched by ProPublica in collaboration with National Public Radio, the [...]
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Government to Launch Academic Detailing Program

By Jill Wechsler | Published: April 21, 2010
Some of the $1.1 billion in funding for Comparative Effectiveness Research (CER) provided by last year’s economic stimulus legislation will be used to support a major doctor education campaign on drugs and medical products and procedures. The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) plans to contract this fall with a marketing or advertising company [...]
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CME–No More Fun

By Marylyn Donahue | Published: June 6, 2008
Oregon’s Academy of Family Physicians 1,300 members decided to no longer accept pharma supported grants (restricted and non-restricted) for its continuing education programs. And last month, the American Medical Association (AMA) Council on Ethical Judicial Affairs issued a report saying that physician and institutions of medicine should stop the practice altogether. The idea doesn’t seem to [...]
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